* Reply to message originally in area CarbonArea   
      
   Hello Janis!   
      
   Mon Sep 16 2013, Janis Kracht wrote to Gert Andersen:   
      
    >>>>> 1st, check the path in your filedirg.000 file. 2nd, check for the    
    >>>>> same path in your external.bbb file [tick] section.   
      
    >>>>>> I have the path for the files and directory made for the files.   
    >>>>>> Can someone help me up with this or tell me what could be wrong.   
      
    >>>>> If it's not #1 or #2 above, then check the permissions on your hard   
    >>>>> drive file areas for user bbbs.  I am not sure about Windows, since I   
    >>>>> run the Linux version but I thought you also control permissions in    
    >>>>> the same sort of way with Windows.   
      
    >>>>> Also check in filedirg.000 for permissions in the area, permissions    
    >>>>> for R&W should look something like this:   
      
    >>>> Got and I find a little typus miss where I had write /home/bbbs/ and   
    >>>> forgot it is /dsds2/home, after the corrected here it got import and   
    >>>> process some files but then end up with coming with pwd error for node   
    >>>> and not find out if it is 2:230/152.16 or .18   
    >>>> It uplink is 2:230/152.16 for fidonet and the bbbs aka as bbs is    
    >>>> 152.18   
      
    >>> Kim one day worked with me to make sure the spaces were correct between   
    >>> the passwords for a node in the external.bbb [nodes] section.  Maybe   
    >>> the spaces between the passwords is the problem?   
      
    >>> ; node      spass   apass   ppass   tpass gr  st pa route   
    >>> ; --------- ------- ------- ------- ----- --- -- -- -------------------   
      
    >>> 1:261/2      passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  passwrd  XFG H   2 1:261/5   
      
    >>> If the downlink doesn't want a packet password, you still have to put   
    >>> in a dash (-) there.   
      
    >>> 1:261/2      passwrd  passwrd  -      passwrd  XFG H   2 1:261/5   
      
    >> It is just strange for nodes section when I mean that first nodenumber    
    >> should be the aka for the system and not the uplink.   
      
    JK>NO :)  The first number in the [nodes] section is the DOWNLINK's or    
    JK>UPLINK's node number and his password(s).   
      
    JK>At the _end_ of the line, where I have 1:261/5 (last field), that is a    
    JK>routing statement saying any netmail for another node (1:261/5) should    
    JK>get routed to 1:261/2.   
      
      
    >> In the bbbs sysop.txt doc says it 'This node' for node so it is the aka    
    >> for bbbs and not the uplinks aka.   
      
    JK>You mean this line?   
      
    JK>"node        The FidoNet address of this node."   
      
    JK>That is refering to "this node you are connecting with", it could be    
    JK>your uplink or downlink, not your own node number.   
      
   Yes and it the right so bbbs aka 2:230/152.18 have in the file node aka to be   
   uplink 2:230/152.16 and etc,. for zone 115 and 145.   
   I tested out by hatch a new linux game in lnx4games and each time it got to   
   bbbs for import it got filtered and deleted why bbs not could find or requnize   
   a unzip.exe from where I have the path for it. so I just to go to sourceforge   
   and get a dl of unzip here and then copy 3 files for unzip to both \usr\bin\   
   and \home\bbbs dirs and write 2 new extra lines in external.bbbs file so bbbs   
   first look in usr\bin and then again the same place if not found then look for   
   it in its own directory.   
   Now a new zip file was ask to be resend from 2:230/150 to /152.16 and to bbbs,   
   and it now looks got fine process and put to pub dir lnx4game with fine info   
   header with both your hdr and mine there.   
      
    >> When I change the bbbs real aka from 2:230/152.18 ( aka for the system    
    >> to uplinks aka as 2:230/152.16 ) is it working for import mails and    
    >> files. The system has 2 own akas as 2:230/152.18 115:4500/5 145:2/31 and    
    >> it uplinks akas is 2:230/152.16 115:4501/17 and 145:2/20   
    >>Then wil there maybe could be extra intern aka for it as 999:999/15 with    
    >>uplin as 999:999/2 (for own network dsdsnet).   
      
    >>>>> ===example filedirg.000===   
    >>>>> /                /home/ftp/pub                 Root directory   
    >>>>> /incoming       /home/bbbs/pub/incoming       @rw:fsysop New uploads   
    >>>>> /comm  /home/ftp/pub/comm/        @rw:fsysop @r:all [COMM] Comm/term   
    >>>>> Files]   
    >>>>> /mail   /home/ftp/pub/mail/      @rw:fsysop @r:all [MAIL] Mail   
    >>>>> Utilities   
    >>>>> /pdn   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/      @rw:fsysop @r:all [PDN] Programmers   
    >>>>> Distribution   
    >>>>> /pdn/pdnai   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnai/      @rw:fsysop @r:all AI   
    >>>>> (artificial int   
    >>>>> /pdn/pdnasm   /home/ftp/pub/pdn/pdnasm/    @rw:fsysop @r:all ASM   
    >>>>> Programming   
    >>>>> [...]   
    >>>>> =======example filedirg.000====   
      
    >>>> Then was there 3 files to lnx4games there got erroring the most time    
    >>>> but I fin out that in external.bbb and filedirg it was writte as    
    >>>> lnx4games when harddisk directory was made as lnx4game, so I set bbbs    
    >>>> to use dir lnx4game.   
      
    >>> Ok, so that sounds like some progress..   
      
    >> Nearly but not complete.   
    >>I have to make some test with PascalNT and Gmsnet akas and see if new    
    >>echos an areas can be working for those and too some fido areas.   
      
    JK>Use that method I mentioned in my last message to you to autocreate the    
    JK>msg. areas (bcfg4->Global->Multiadd)   
      
    >>>>>> I could too like bbbs to just autocreate echomail and file areas    
    >>>>>> when it is a save way that nothing is getting directly to bbbs from   
    >>>>>> outside.   
      
    >>>>> Check out the [badareas] section in external.bbb.. There, you tell    
    >>>>> bbbs who to expect new echomail areas from and what specific flags to    
    >>>>> apply to each imported area your Uplink sends to you.  Then you can    
    >>>>> run   
      
    >>>>> ./bcfg4 bad  [Autocreate echoareas]   
    >>>>> and   
    >>>>> ./bbbs bogus b [Forward bad mail and write them to BBBS]   
      
    >>>>> IIRC, There isn't a way to automatically add file echos.   
      
    >>>>> Maybe Torbjorn will mention something I'm not thinking of here since    
    >>>>> he runs the Windows version.   
      
    >>>> It should be the same for windows as for linux should I mean, but as   
    >>>> this is telling about in the sysop files is it missing as section in    
    >>>> the external.bbb file.   
    >>>> The bbbs I have it the old bbbs_nt version.   
      
    >>> If you want me to take a look at your external.bbb file, you can attach   
    >>> it to an email and send it to me at janis@filegate.net.   
      
    >> I make some extra test to see if I make things to work right by do some    
    >> route sending from main system 2:230/150 -> 2:230/152.16 -> 2:230/152.18    
    >> and for 2 other networks akas to see if the route now is working bbbs see    
    >> it rights of akas present by names and akas. Then this is done email I    
    >>you with attach file as like dsds-bbbs.zip of the external.bbbs file.   
      
    JK>Ok, sounds good.   
      
   So it is now if I can get the 2 other akas to work and it will be most for   
   145: gmsnet as there is getting lot of games in this network now. (It is my   
   own games hatching to it.)   
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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